Harrison County residents should have received their 2009 property tax bills in the mail last week.

Six of the seven county taxing districts opted for the compensating tax rate. Revenue from the compensating tax rate is expected to be about the same as it was the previous year. However, it does not mean that the tax rate is the same.

When the Harrison County Justice Center was built 10 years ago, it had a state of the art handicap-accessible chair lift.

However, time and weather have taken their toll on the lift and make it, at times, not Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliant.

Harrison County Judge-Executive Alex Barnett said that having someone from the staff come out to engage the lift will soon be a thing of the past. And, what will be taking its place is a ramp that will have three switchbacks.

Three of six criminal indictments handed down by the Harrison County grand jury on Tuesday were for drug-related offenses.

Steeve Alexis, 27, faces a seven-count indictment for incidents that allegedly occurred in July. He is charged with three counts of trafficking in a controlled substance (Oxycodone), fleeing or evading police, wanton endangerment, receiving stolen property and criminal mischief.

Alexis is alleged to have attempted to run from police on July 17. He is charged with damaging property belonging to Steve Craycraft.

Sergio Ortega Talavera, 22, was traveling westbound on Ky. 36 (approaching Lafferty Pike) around 3:30 p.m. when the 1996 GMC pickup he was driving left the right side of the road and struck a telephone pole.

Kentucky State Police, Harrison County Sheriff’s Department and the Harrison County Fire Department responded to the scene.

“This means I’m going to have longer to live,” Faye Prather said last Thursday afternoon at her home.

A bracelet around her wrist shows she suffers from heart disease, a necklace around her neck tells paramedics what to do in case of an emergency and a tube in her abdomen leads to the driver that pushes blood out of her heart.

Every year at this time as I start to pen a psalm of Thanksgiving, I’m never quite sure where to begin, or even how to approach you.

I have so little to lay at your feet. No grand deeds, no souls saved because of something I’ve said or done. Truth is, I’m feeling empty-handed and ashamed, aware of my unworthiness, yet confident of your great mercy.